Welcome RBGBs! May 3, 2019
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It’s a wet, cold spring. I have been watching my feeder for rose-breasted grosbeaks, hoping they will show up on time.
This is year 8 for listing species. In the past seven years, three times my first sighting of an RBGB was on May 3. Today.
May 3 is also the latest they’ve shown up. There was an early-bird sighting one April 26. Two April 29 sightings. One May 1.
It’s been so dreary I wouldn’t blame them for taking their time, but one showed up at neighbor’s feeder last weekend, a mere 2 miles away.
A Baltimore oriole, a ruby-throated hummingbird—they showed up today in the cold rain.
A watched feeder never produces an RBGB.
Maybe I’ll put a welcome sign on the window.
Route 153 